Thank goodness someone has explained - I was reading the thread for the first time and thinking that there was something very odd going on.

I have known the middle part - the three verse souling song for a long time. I have heard what was put as the first verse as an addition at the end of the souling song. I know its tune as a round, having played it without the words somewhere.

I wonder why it is that if something is put on a recording it immediately aquires a pedigree going back to Adam before the fall, and what annoys me even more is that I'm suposed to alter the way I have sung a song for 40 or 50 years to fit in with a recent recording.

When I did put in 'Nobody home' the basterds wouldn't sing it as a round because they had not heard it sung that way.

You can't get the audiences these days you know -